Doreen Sheridan

The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati is a semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre—a brutal torturing and rape of two young women in 1975 at the hands of former students of Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno. Weighing in at over 1,200 pages, Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School…

In Kira Peikoff’s new psychological thriller, Mother Knows Best a scientist illegally edits human DNA to help a mother conceive a healthy baby. But their actions carry steep consequences and lead to a deadly secret that haunts a family across the generations. This medical thriller had me compulsively turning the pages to find out what…

The Maryland town of Bayport’s newest bookstore is having an invigorating effect on every member of Val Deniston’s household. She herself is excited to be catering the bookstore’s Halloween event, while her housemate grandfather is exploring his tender feelings for bookstore owner, Dorothy Muir. Meanwhile, Granddad’s lodger, Suzette Cripps, is working hard on her entry…

Flour in the Attic by Winnie Archer is the fourth book in the Bread Shop Mystery series, where Ivy Culpepper keeps the ovens hot at Yeast of Eden, a Northern California bakery that specializes in traditional breads, but now has to deal with a stone-cold killer. Ivy Culpepper is on tenterhooks waiting for her best…

Hana Keller is the third generation of her Hungarian-American family to run Maggie’s Tea House, the popular Illinois establishment that serves European-style teas. Proud as she is of her Magyar heritage, she doesn’t necessarily buy into all their superstitions—until a strong sense of foreboding before a tea service one day literally stops her in her…

Tricia Miles is the owner of vintage mystery bookstore Haven’t Got a Clue, but since promoting her assistant, Pixie Poe, to assistant manager, she has found herself at a loose end as Pixie enthusiastically and capably takes over her responsibilities. Deciding to make good use of her years of experience running a non-profit, Tricia joins…

Singapore Sapphire by A. M. Stuart is the first book in the new Harriet Gordon Mystery series set in early 20th-century Singapore, where Gordon and Inspector Robert Curran must suss out a murdering secretive gang before they themselves become the next victims. I’ll admit that when I first started reading Singapore Sapphire, it was with…